Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-09-09
TELECRAPHC SUMMARY.
An Epitsns d The Principal Events Now
Attrssdng Pablo Interest
The Bank Of London has failed.


Locusts are devastating centfai
America.
The Emperor of Germany is re-
ported seriously i'll again.
PROSECUTORS for coal in Alaska re-
port their search fruitless.
The salmon catch in Alaska has
been unusually large this season.
One man was killed and ten people
injured by railroad accident near the
Washington, d. c. depot
The English steamship Madrid, from
Bull river. s. c., TO London, May zotn.
is given as lost with all on board.
The Queen of England has granted
a full pardon of all deserters from the
British army if they report before the
18th OF October.
A recent storm on the Han and
Yang-tse- Kiang rivers, China, tore the
shipping looee, sunk many vessels ana
hunks. Many hundred lives were
lost.
Richard Stewart, brother OF Scion
Stewart. u. s. District Attorney Tor
Texas, is confined in dungeon at
Oieuinta, Mexico, where he has been
| for four months on a trumped-up
| charge. Mexicans are after his prop
| erty.
The acting Land Commissioner has
taken the necessary steps to carry out
Secretary Lamar's recent order direct
| ing the restoration to settlement and
entry of upimproved indemnity selec-
| tons of the California & Oregon Rail
road Company. The order will affect
about 10000 acres.
A Winnipeg special says letters from
Fraser and Stewart. dated Fort Chip.
pewyan, July 5, state they reached
that point after many hardships, fort O.
fires being numerous and destructive.
The restitution at Fort Chippewyan
last winter was terrible, and several
cases of cannibalism are reported.
One old woman at Little Red river adj
mits having killed and eaten her whole
family. Starvation and cannibalism
are also reported from the Mckenzie
river.
A letter has been received at the
Navy Department, at Washington
from a California gentleman asking tc
be one OF $4,000 Americans to con
tribute 81 apiece to secure the sun
necessary to repair and preserve the
old flagship Hartford. The writer say
, $4,000 can be raised in Californi'
alone for this purpose, and he believe
: other sections of the country would b.
equally generous and that the entir
amount could, if some suitable person
were delegated to receive it, be easil.
' subscribed within thirty days.
Two terrible accidents occurred a
Enfield, Ill, at reunion of tn
:. Eighty seventh Illinois Veterans. Dun
ing the sham battle cannon was pre-
: maturely discharged, blowing off ia;
u Crockets right arm. An instant latel
few rods distant, another canno
was discharged prematurely, an
e stretched five bleeding victims on tn
y ground. Gabe Sullinger had bot
e arms blown off and will probably di'
= The others injured were Robert JOIN
t son, Irwin Reader, William DAME
t, and Emanuel Berry. They are fea
1t fully lacerated and burned, but wi
ic survive.
AtHiggins lake, Roscommon count
4 MICHIGAN, Mrs. Chas. H. Petit and HI
1t little daughter, aged three years, WEI
n boating, when the little one, while C
a. pering about, fell into the water. TT
t, mother in her anxiety and fright the
al upset the boat, and as they were alor
10 the chances were excellent for
IN double funeral, had not their horse, a
Is intelligent French pony, which ha
~ been turned loose to Craze on II
to shore OF the lake, come to their rescu
ct Alarmed by the screams OF the mothe
nv and by the commotion which the tv
Cd made in the water, the animal swa
out to them, and when they had take
a secure hold of its name struggl,
back to shore, tired but heroic pom
!, The animal is inclined to be balk
=, and he never would pull anything b
-, ~, light load, but now he is prime I
:" vorite.
Oh An accident occurred to the ca
,,f bound Union Pacific express at San
s1 creek bridge, ten miles east of DENY,
\, resulting in the death of Engine
-, Masterson, and the serious woundil
= of two or three train men. The Uni
~, ~ Pacific and the Burlington bridg
oe cross Sand creek almost parallel a.
VIC within few feet Of each other, a.
ur when the engineer of the Union |
" cific train was within few feet of t
Ell bridge, he was Mortified to see thai
as flood in the early part of the event
ay had washed away the middle sectiC
ad The fireman jumped into the strea
on where he stuck and was taken c
for half an hour later in an unconscic
is condition and may die. Engin,
Masterson grabbed the lever and
versed the engine just as it plung
into the water with the baggage car
ills top. His body was crushed into /
sand beneath the engine, which "
=, also completely submerged in t
w sand. Bsggageman Breedlove v
'p' badly injured by falling trunks.
old German woman living near hes
:. the cries OF the frightened peor
MS rushed out with lantern and stopE
are the approaching express on the B
oe lington road within a few feet OF
bridge, probably saving other lives,
the bridge OF this road was in d.
md gerous condition. A young fellow
the the name of Beander, who was steal
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